sea

• POS: Noun
• COUNT in NET: 378 in 331 verses (in OT : 289 in 248 verses) (in NT : 89 in 83 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

sea, n. [OE. see, AS. s; akin to D. zee, OS. & OHG. s, G. see, OFries. se, Dan. sö, Sw. sjö, Icel. sær, Goth. saiws, and perhaps to L. saevus fierce, savage.

•  One of the larger bodies of salt water, less than an ocean, found on the earth's surface; a body of salt water of second rank, generally forming part of, or connecting with, an ocean or a larger sea; as, the Mediterranean Sea; the Sea of Marmora; the North Sea; the Carribean Sea.  [1913 Webster]
•  An inland body of water, esp. if large or if salt or brackish; as, the Caspian Sea; the Sea of Aral; sometimes, a small fresh-water lake; as, the Sea of Galilee.  [1913 Webster]
•  The ocean; the whole body of the salt water which covers a large part of the globe.  [1913 Webster]

  "I marvel how the fishes live in the sea."  [1913 Webster]

  "Ambiguous between sea and land
  The river horse and scaly crocodile."  [1913 Webster]
•  The swell of the ocean or other body of water in a high wind; motion or agitation of the water's surface; also, a single wave; a billow; as, there was a high sea after the storm; the vessel shipped a sea.  [1913 Webster]
•  A great brazen laver in the temple at Jerusalem; -- so called from its size.  [1913 Webster]

  "He made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof."  [1913 Webster]
•  Fig.: Anything resembling the sea in vastness; as, a sea of glory.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

  " Sea is often used in the composition of words of obvious signification; as, sea-bathed, sea-beaten, sea-bound, sea-bred, sea-circled, sealike, sea-nursed, sea-tossed, sea-walled, sea-worn, and the like. It is also used either adjectively or in combination with substantives; as, sea bird, sea-bird, or seabird, sea acorn, or sea-acorn."  [1913 Webster]

  "All the space . . . was one sea of heads."  [1913 Webster]

At sea, upon the ocean; away from land; figuratively, without landmarks for guidance; lost; at the mercy of circumstances. “To say the old man was at sea would be too feeble an expression.” G. W. Cable -- At full sea at the height of flood tide; hence, at the height. “But now God's mercy was at full sea.” Jer. Taylor. -- Beyond seas, or Beyond the sea or Beyond the seas (Law), out of the state, territory, realm, or country. Wharton. -- Half seas over, half drunk. [Colloq.] Spectator. -- Heavy sea, a sea in which the waves run high. -- Long sea, a sea characterized by the uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves. -- Short sea, a sea in which the waves are short, broken, and irregular, so as to produce a tumbling or jerking motion. -- To go to sea, to adopt the calling or occupation of a sailor.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

sea, n.
1 the expanse of salt water that covers most of the earth's surface and surrounds its land masses.
2 any part of this as opposed to land or fresh water.
3 a particular (usu. named) tract of salt water partly or wholly enclosed by land (the North Sea; the Dead Sea).
4 a large inland lake (the Sea of Galilee).
5 the waves of the sea, esp. with reference to their local motion or state (a choppy sea).
6 (foll. by of) a vast quantity or expanse (a sea of troubles; a sea of faces).
7 (attrib.) living or used in, on, or near the sea (often prefixed to the name of a marine animal, plant, etc., having a superficial resemblance to what it is named after) (sea lettuce).

Idiom

at sea 1 in a ship on the sea.
2 (also all at sea) perplexed, confused. by sea in a ship or ships. go to sea become a sailor.
on the sea
1 in a ship at sea.
2 situated on the coast. put (or put out) to sea leave land or port. sea anchor a device such as a heavy bag dragged in the water to retard the drifting of a ship. sea anemone any of various coelenterates of the order Actiniaria having a polypoid body bearing a ring of tentacles around the mouth. sea-angel an angel-fish. sea bass any of various marine fishes like the bass, esp. Centropristis striatus. sea bird a bird frequenting the sea or the land near the sea. sea bream = PORGY. sea breeze a breeze blowing towards the land from the sea, esp. during the day (cf. land breeze). sea buckthorn a maritime shrub, Hippopha{euml} rhamnoides with orange berries. sea change a notable or unexpected transformation (with ref. to Shakesp. Tempest I. ii. 403). sea-chest a sailor's storage-chest. sea coal archaic mineral coal, as distinct from charcoal etc.
sea cow
1 a sirenian.
2 a walrus. sea cucumber a holothurian, esp. a b{ecirc}che-de-mer. sea dog an old or experienced sailor. sea eagle any fish-eating eagle esp. of the genus Halia{euml}tus. sea-ear = ORMER. sea elephant any large seal of the genus Mirounga, the male of which has a proboscis: also called elephant seal. sea fan any colonial coral of the order Gorgonacea supported by a fanlike horny skeleton. sea front the part of a coastal town directly facing the sea. sea-girt literary surrounded by sea. sea gooseberry any marine animal of the phylum Ctenophora, with an ovoid body bearing numerous cilia. sea-green bluish-green (as of the sea). sea hare any of various marine molluscs of the order Anaspidea, having an internal shell and long extensions from its foot. sea holly a spiny-leaved blue-flowered evergreen plant, Eryngium maritimum.
sea horse
1 any of various small upright marine fish of the family Syngnathidae, esp. Hippocampus hippocampus, having a body suggestive of the head and neck of a horse.
2 a mythical creature with a horse's head and fish's tail. sea-island cotton a fine-quality long-stapled cotton grown on islands off the southern US. sea lavender any maritime plant of the genus Limonium, with small brightly-coloured funnel-shaped flowers. sea legs the ability to keep one's balance and avoid seasickness when at sea. sea level the mean level of the sea's surface, used in reckoning the height of hills etc. and as a barometric standard. sea lily any of various sessile echinoderms, esp. of the class Crinoidea, with long jointed stalks and feather-like arms for trapping food. sea lion any large, eared seal of the Pacific, esp. of the genus Zalophus or Otaria. sea loch = LOCH 2. Sea Lord (in the UK) a naval member of the Admiralty Board. sea mile = nautical mile. sea mouse any iridescent marine annelid of the genus Aphrodite. sea onion = SQUILL 2. sea otter a Pacific otter, Enhydra lutris, using a stone balanced on its abdomen to crack bivalve molluscs. sea pink a maritime plant, Armeria maritima, with bright pink flowers: also called THRIFT. sea purse the egg-case of a skate or shark. sea room clear space at sea for a ship to turn or manoeuvre in. sea salt salt produced by evaporating sea water. Sea Scout a member of the maritime branch of the Scout Association.
sea serpent (or snake)
1 a snake of the family Hydrophidae, living in the sea.
2 an enormous legendary serpent-like sea monster. sea shell the shell of a salt-water mollusc.
sea snail
1 a small slimy fish of the family Liparididae, with a ventral sucker.
2 any spiral-shelled mollusc, e.g. a whelk. sea squirt any marine turnicate of the class Ascidiacea, consisting of a bag-like structure with apertures for the flow of water. sea trout = salmon trout. sea urchin a small marine echinoderm of the class Echinoidea, with a spherical or flattened spiny shell. sea wall a wall or embankment erected to prevent encroachment by the sea. sea water water in or taken from the sea.

Etymology

OE s{aelig} f. Gmc

THESAURUS

sea

abundance, acres, bags, barrels, big drink, billow, blue, blue water, bore, breakers, brine, briny, bushel, chop, choppiness, chopping sea, comb, comber, copiousness, countlessness, deep, dirty water, drink, eagre, flood, gravity wave, ground swell, heave, heavy sea, heavy swell, high sea, high seas, hydrosphere, lift, load, lop, main, main sea, mass, mountain, much, multitude, numerousness, ocean, ocean depths, ocean main, ocean sea, oceans, peak, peck, plenitude, plenty, popple, profusion, quantities, quantity, riffle, ripple, rise, roll, roller, rough water, salt sea, salt water, scend, send, spate, superabundance, superfluity, surf, surge, swell, thalassa, the bounding main, the brine, the briny, the briny deep, the deep, the deep sea, the seven seas, the vasty deep, tidal bore, tidal wave, tide, tide wave, tons, trough, tsunami, undulation, volume, water wave, wave, wavelet, white horses, whitecaps, world, worlds

ROGET THESAURUS

sea

Multitude

N multitude, numerous, numerosity, numerality, multiplicity, profusion, legion, host, great number, large number, round number, enormous number, a quantity, numbers, array, sight, army, sea, galaxy, scores, peck, bushel, shoal, swarm, draught, bevy, cloud, flock, herd, drove, flight, covey, hive, brood, litter, farrow, fry, nest, crowd, lots, all in the world and his wife, greater number, majority, multiplication, multiple, many, several, sundry, divers, various, not a few, Briarean, a hundred, a thousand, a myriad, a million, a quadrillion, a nonillion, a thousand and one, some ten or a dozen, some forty or fifty, half a dozen, half a hundred, very many, full many, ever so many, numerous, numerose, profuse, in profusion, manifold, multiplied, multitudinous, multiple, multinominal, teeming, populous, peopled, crowded, thick, studded, galore, thick coming, many more, more than one can tell, a world of, no end of, no end to, cum multis aliis, thick as hops, thick as hail, plenty as blackberries, numerous as the stars in the firmament, numerous as the sands on the seashore, numerous as the hairs on the head, and what not, and heaven knows what, endless, their name is 'legion', acervatim, en foule, many- headed multitude, numerous as glittering gems of morning dew, vel prece vel pretio.

Ocean

N sea, ocean, main, deep, brine, salt water, waves, billows, high seas, offing, great waters, watery waste, vasty deep, wave, tide, hydrography, hydrographer, Neptune, Poseidon, Thetis, Triton, Naiad, Nereid, sea nymph, Siren, trident, dolphin, oceanic, marine, maritime, pelagic, pelagian, seagoing, hydrographic, bathybic, cotidal, at sea, on sea, afloat.

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